NASA Just Shut Down. What If An Asteroid Comes?

Programmer/ January 21, 2018/ Asteroids, Government Shut Down, Minor Planet Center, NASA, NASA JPL

NASA said it would figure it out. (According to the agency’s contingency plan, 116 of its 1,467 headquarters employees are working during the shutdown.) Posted on January 20, 2018, at 6:24 a.m. Dan Vergano BuzzFeed News Reporter   If an asteroid is headed toward Earth and NASA is shut down, who will astronomers call to issue a warning? The space

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More Than 100 Scientists Call For Need To Develop An Asteroid Deflection Plan

Programmer/ January 1, 2018/ Asteroids, Minor Planet Center, NASA, NASA JPL, Space Weather

Scientists want to destroy a binary asteroid system to study how to deflect an Earth-shattering asteroid. As scientists continue to call for climate change countermeasures, they’ve also now brought another apocalyptic threat back to our attention. More than 100 scientists recently published a letter supporting a joint NASA/ESA mission to study how we might deflect an asteroid on a collision

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Bizarre Skull Asteroid Will Return To Earth In 2018

Programmer/ December 28, 2017/ Asteroids, Minor Planet Center, NASA, NASA JPL, Space Weather

An asteroid that bears a striking resemblance to a skull is set to pass Earth again next year, having last done so on Halloween in 2015. Called 2015 TB145, the asteroid is about 625 to 700 meters (2,050-2,300 feet) across, and rotates once every three hours. It swung past our planet on October 31, 2015, at a distance of 486,000 kilometers (302,000

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